In our previous installment on the 2017 UAP videos, we discussed the 2004 Nimitz UAP craft[1] and the 2017 Nevada-to-Oregon craft.[2]
Both are described as fast-moving white Tic Tac-shaped objects, and how they might have been advanced U.S. aircraft being tested near U.S. military assets.
In the case of the Nimitz events, this may have been done in order to gauge the ability of recently released U.S. radar technology. That’s the state-of-the-art AN/SPY-1 passive electronically scanned array (PESA) 3D radar system.[3]
It had just been installed on the Princeton guided missile cruiser, which was assigned as part of the Nimitz battle group.
We also covered that some U.S. government spokespersons, including Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, director of the UAP-investigating All-domain Anomaly Research Office (AARO),[4] were willing to attribute these sightings to secret CIA craft or even to advanced military test vehicles.[5]
This position was directly contradicted by a report from a different government UAP investigating body, the Advanced Aerospace Weapon Systems Applications program (AAWSAT). It left the public to wonder which government-supported agency was telling the truth.
That leaves us with two questions: have these craft been spotted elsewhere in the U.S.? And if so, does it suggest they may have a common location that they’re operating out of that can further confirm these are U.S. military craft?
As with the previous two questions, the answers here are also yes.
Multiple times since early 2018 — the same time frame during which NORAD released the voice recordings and radar transcripts of the Nevada-to-Oregon object — pilots flying private and commercial aircraft in Nevada, New Mexico, and Arizona have reported a very fast white tubular object, spotted flying through commercial airspace in the U.S. southwest.[6]
The pilots of at least three aircraft — a Phoenix Air Learjet 35, an Airbus A321, and American Airlines Flight 1095 — all reported an incident on February 24th, 2018.
In each instance, the aircrews reported some unknown craft passing over their planes at an altitude they estimated as being 40,000 feet.
In all three instances, no other craft but the reporting aircrews was spotted on radar. Seemingly an identical situation to the Nevada-to-Oregon craft, which was visible to aircrew, but which dropped off radar after turning north upon entering California airspace.
One pilot described the craft as ‘really beaming light or had a big reflection, and several thousand feet above us going in the opposite direction.’[7]
Just as in the Nevada-to-Oregon Tic Tac incident, this craft did not have a transponder and was not communicating with air traffic control. Such intruding objects should be enough of a concern that the U.S. Air Force and NORAD would have taken a strong interest in determining what the object was. But no such reports have been released.
Such a lack of a response is curious. Since the area where this 2018 incident occurred is the center of a lot of military activity. White Sands Missile Range and Holloman Air Force Base are just to the east, while to the south lies Davis Monthan AFB, as well as Tuscon International Airport.
Then there’s Luke AFB to the north, and a collection of military test ranges around Yuma MCAS to the west.[8]
This leads us to ask another question: how likely is it that the U.S. military can fly its top–secret aircraft over the U.S. without being positively identified?
We know that many of the UFO reports from the 1960s and 1970s in the southwest were actually top-secret test flights of various advanced aircraft, from the U-2 and SR-71 spy planes, to the F-117 Nighthawk and B-1 Stealth Bomber a few decades later.[9]
In fact, it was the CIA that launched disinformation campaigns to discredit those sightings, blaming them on UFOs.[10]
An example of how top-secret craft can be flown in U.S. airspace yet hardly ever acknowledged or even photographed is the aircraft known as ‘RAT 55,’ a converted 737 with long tubular radar domes at both the front and rear of the plane’s fuselage.[11]
This aircraft has been flying since the late 1970s, and yet has been photographed only a handful of times. The RAT part of its name stands for Radar Aircraft Testbed, and describes the plane’s ability to test other aircrafts’ radar signature in real-world conditions.
It’s not only hard to spot, flying mostly (it’s believed) over the Mojave Desert, but it’s not even clear where the aircraft is based, though speculation includes the Tonopah Test Range and Groom Lake.
So, if we assume the Tic Tac craft is indeed an advanced U.S. craft of some sort, what rationale would the U.S. military have for allowing such a confusing hodgepodge of sightings, and for flying unproven craft both in commercial airspace as well as near combat-enabled military assets?
That the three original 2017-released UAP videos have been continually referred to as ‘unidentified’ is something of a joke to many neutral researchers.
As we discussed in the first three newsletters covering these sightings, the U.S. military had to have known that those videos showed easily explained terrestrial aircraft before the videos were declassified.
That raises the question: why would the U.S. military allow pilots to continue to use these videos to support their claims of non-U.S. aircraft performing ‘impossible’ maneuvers?
There are two main possibilities:
A) That the Pentagon wants the world, primarily our two current adversaries China and Russia, to believe the U.S. has back engineered non-terrestrial aircraft and that we are confident enough of their reliability that we’re currently test flying them against our own forces and in our own airspace; or
B) That the Pentagon and the intelligence agencies want to sow discord among the UFO community by confusing civilian expectations about the possibility of non-terrestrial craft, a position that’s been the case since the CIA infiltrated the UFO observation group NICAP as far back as 1967.[12]
It’s also possible that both of these conditions overlap. That the Pentagon wants to muddy the water in UFO investigations, making it more difficult to determine what is a UFO and what’s a current top-secret project, just as the CIA did with the SR-71 and the F-117.
And if the response from Russian president Vladimir Putin on March 1st, 2018 is any indication, at least one of our adversaries considers it highly likely that these are indeed advanced U.S. military aircraft.
To sum this all up, we the public may never know exactly what the white Tic Tac objects are, unless and until the Pentagon discloses their secrets. But a well-educated guess would suggest these are advanced U.S. military craft, possibly unmanned, that are so far ahead of our current technology that our own pilots are astounded at their capabilities.
As Ben Rich, the long-time director of Lockheed’s famous Skunk Works research program that developed top secret craft like the SR-71, was quoted as saying:
‘We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects, and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity.’[13]
Maybe someday, someone will play God, and show us what’s behind all the mystery.
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2019/09/18/those-ufo-videos-are-real- navy-says-please-stop-saying-ufo/
[2] https://he.flightaware.com/squawks/view/1/unset/user/65767/FAA_Tapes_From_That_Oregon_ UFO_Incident_That_Sent_F_15s_Scrambling
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/SPY-1
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-domain_Anomaly_Resolution_Office
[5] https://www.wane.com/top-stories/inside-one-of-the-most-consequential-ufo-encounters-of-all-time- the-tic-tac-incident/
[6] https://www.newsweek.com/ufo-sighting-new-mexico-arizona-albuquerque-air-traffic-control-american- 861975
[7] https://www.twz.com/19095/listen-in-as-a-learjet-and-an-airbus-encounter-a-mystery-craft-high-over- arizona
[8] https://www.twz.com/19095/listen-in-as-a-learjet-and-an-airbus-encounter-a-mystery-craft-high-over-arizona
[9] https://www.airandspaceforces.com/article/0611ufo
[10] https://amuedge.com/beyond-ufos-what-are-navy-pilots-seeing-in-the-skies
[11] https://www.twz.com/40915/these-are-best-images-ever-of-the-worlds-most-secretive-737
[12] https://www.theufochronicles.com/2018/06/the-cias-infiltration-of-nicap-national.html
[13] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7372138-we-already-have-the-means-to-travel-among-the-stars